This is the second of our “Meet the Jays” segments featuring a few of the 2009-2010 Creighton Bluejays women’s basketball players. Check White & Blue Review during the next few days as we profile some of Jim Flanery’s top players.
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Creighton was one of the lowest scoring teams in the Missouri Valley Conference last season, averaging 60 points per game. And although Jim Flanery and his coaching staff would have liked to implement a more up-tempo gameplan last season, injuries and a short roster forced the Bluejays to slow things down. However, that did not keep Chevelle Herring from finishing sixth in the league last season in scoring. She also led CU in scoring, in 6 of the first 8 games and 13 out of 34 on the year. This season, Herring feels it won’t be up to her to lead the way in the scoring column this season.
“I don’t think that will be my role this year. We have Sam (Schuett) back this year and we’ll have Woody (Kelsey Woodard) and Megan (Neuvirth). It will be more a job for me to handle the ball better.”
Herring has the opportunity to focus on capitalizing on her 93 assists (where she led the team in 16 games) and 45 steals, stats that combined with her scoring output to earn her second-team all-MVC honors last season after coming back from knee surgery. And even after going 0-for-12 in her last game last season (in the MVC Tournament championship game loss to Evansville), Chevy, as she is nicknamed, is ready to go out and do whatever needed to help her teammates this season.
Chevy, being one of the many members of the team from Nebraska. is looking forward to some great competition this season, especially the game against in-state rival Nebraska:
“I’m looking forward to Nebraska and Drake. Being from Bellevue and having a former teammate playing there, I think it will be fun.”
Herring brings 92 games of experience to the court as the director of Flan’s offense. She’s one of three fifth-year seniors on the roster, too, so she’s been through some tough situations as a Bluejay. With non-conference opponents such as Oklahoma and Kansas State, her fifth season won’t be easy. “The non-conference is always exciting. I think that we learn a lot from the competition we play. It is a good way to roll into the conference season.”
Watch for Herring to help the offense turn it up a notch this season and watch the women’s basketball team in action next week — their first and only exhibition game is Thursday, November 5, against Nebraska-Omaha.